Checkout questions

  • Resolved VForce

    (@visionforce)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello building a site for a client and I need site visitors to come to the site, create an account, use a cost calculator plugin to show an estimated price by weight to sell brass scraps to the site owner.

    A perfect example is the exact process shown here and explained best in step 2: https://www.capitalcartridge.com/sell-brass-casings-s/106.htm

    I need to know a few things to complete this:

    1. Is it a way to “swap” the customers with the client involving checkout? Since the client needs to enter the weight of scrap for an estimated price to get a check from my client, how can I change it so the customer checksout without payment. I tried the check option and it’s for the customer to send a check to my client not the other way around. Can this be swapped?

    2. Would love to generate a shipping label for the site visitor to get to ship to the client. He has a stamps.com account but was looking for a cheaper alternative to the $79 plugin. Is it a way to incorporate that into woocommerce user accounts?

    Example: Customer creates an account, in their account they can enter the weight of their scrap, see the estimated price ( calculator with WC integration checks out and displays shipping label for customer to print. Or maybe even a “send shipping label” button to the customer for my client to handle manually.

    I was told a vendor plugin would be overkill for something like this as we need the customers to sell only to the site owner.

    Any help with this is appreciated or any work arounds to achieve the same result/process as the linked web page above.

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  • WP Native

    (@nazreenexe)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello @visionforce,

    Quite interesting. Alot of things need to clarified here. Let me get this correct.

    1. Customer selling their scrap to the site owner.
    2. Therefore, the price will be shown/given against the weight that customer enter in the site.
    3. Assuming we’re using the Woo native checkout, the customer should able to checkout this without payment.
    4. Shipping label will be shown once the checkout is completed.

    Questions to clarify:

    1. How do you pay your customer/seller?
    2. How do the customer/seller update when the item is shipped?

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by WP Native.
    Thread Starter VForce

    (@visionforce)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Yes and again https://www.capitalcartridge.com/sell-brass-casings-s/106.htm this page explains the process best.

    I just made a dummy account and recorded the process on their site.

    Recording example: https://share.visionforce.solutions/yAuK4bqw

    1. Once customer gets an estimated price and a shipping label the site’s job is done. The rest is handled by the client where he weighs the shipment and mails a check.
    2. I’m guessing this is done from the shipping label or plugin alternative.

    I honestly feel like I’m overthinking it but I just need some clarity so I can form a plan.

    WP Native

    (@nazreenexe)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Well, that make sense. WooCommerce will help to get the job done and I agree that a vendor plugin is overkill.

    1. Install WooCommerce of course, create a custom product page with the help of page builders such as Elementor.
    2. Get the price calculated agains the weight (Here’s the plugin for that)
    3. Remove the native Woo checkout so that order can be placed without payment

    /* Disable all payment gateways at checkout */
add_filter( 'woocommerce_cart_needs_payment', '__return_false' );

    4. Configure shipping methods which can be used to determine, whether the customer choose prepaid label or their own.
    5. Get rid of the Woo native billing & shipping fields ( Can be done with the checkout field editor)

    Things to figure out:

    1. Show prepaid shipping label on the order summary page.

    Let me know if this helps.

    Cheers,
    Naz.

    MayKato

    (@maykato)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @visionforce

    We’ve not heard back from you in a while, so I’m marking this thread as resolved. If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.

    Thread Starter VForce

    (@visionforce)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @nazreenexe I only received this notification today sorry. For step 3, this is entered in the theme editor?

    That plugin is crazy expensive for what it does, are their any alternative options?

    Checkout field editor looks great.

    con

    (@conschneider)

    Engineer

    4 years ago

    Hi @visionforce,

    For step 3, this is entered in the theme editor?

    You can put this into your theme’s functions.php, yes.

    That plugin is crazy expensive for what it does, are their any alternative options?

    You can try and use custom code: https://woocommerce.com/posts/customize-checkout-fields-woocommerce/

    Checkout field editor looks great.

    Thanks :).

    Kind regards,

    Thread Starter VForce

    (@visionforce)

    4 years ago

    Hello ill definitely check out that article but I was referring to any alternatives/workarounds to the recommended corks by weight plugin above for my use case?

    Mirko P.

    (@rainfallnixfig)

    4 years ago

    Hi @visionforce,

    There is a weight-based pricing plugin here that might help accomplish your goal.

    If it doesn’t work for you or you need something more robust with more features we recommend hiring a developer or one of the customization experts listed at https://woocommerce.com/customizations/.

    Cheers.

    Thread Starter VForce

    (@visionforce)

    4 years ago

    Thank you

    Plugin Support Sérgio L. a11n

    (@csnlima)

    4 years ago

    Hi @visionforce,

    No problem! Since this topic is closed, if you need further help, please open a new one here:

    https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/#new-topic-0

    Best,

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